''We (the Lebanese government) are asking the Security Council to for an international tribunal which will meet in or outside Lebanon and to investigate in the terrorist crime that killed the prime minister Rafik Hariri and the Member of parliament Basel Fleihan and their companions.''

8. Cameraman

9. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Ghazi Aridi, Lebanon Information minister:

''The Lebanese government is asking the (UN) Security Council to extend the mandate of the International Investigation Committee according to the resolution 1595 or to form an independent investigation committee to help the Lebanese authorities in the latest crimes.''

10. Aridi with Journalists

11. SOUNDBITE: (Arabic) Mohammad Fneish, Water and Electric Power Minister and Minister for Hezbollah:

"We left the session to declare the suspension of our membership in the government. We are waiting for our political leadership that we represent, to take the decision if we will stay or not in the government.''

12. Exterior of the An-Nahar newspaper offices

13. Lebanese internal security forces

14. Tilt up from machine gun to internal security forces soldier

15. Wide of protesters holding Lebanese flag

16. Various of Ghassan Tueni (father of Gibran) arriving at the An-Nahar building

17. Candles with Lebanese flag on ground

18. Young woman sitting on the ground near candles

19. Gibran Tueni poster

20. Man lighting candle

21. Pan from sign reading ''the truth'' to Hariri's grave

22. People visiting Hariri's grave

23. Hariri poster

24. Grave

25. Ghattas Khouri walking with MP Walid Eido

26. SOUNDBITE: (English) Ghattas Khouri, MP from Hariri's bloc:

''I think Mr. Mehlis has enough evidence to do what he thinks is right and we support the Mehlis report and the investigations.''

Storyline

Five pro-Syrian Lebanese Shi'ite Muslim ministers have suspended their participation in the Lebanese cabinet, after the assassination of Lebanese lawmaker and journalist Gibran Tueni on Monday.

Syrian allies Hezbollah and Amal are opposed to the cabinet's call for an international tribunal on the Hariri killing and its plan to ask the U.N. to investigate the death of Tueni and other recent killings.

The ministers said it amounted to international intervention.

The cabinet session was held to discuss the latest developments following the assassination of Gibran Tueni.

Also on the agenda was Prime Minister Fuad Saniora's request for international intervention amid calls from anti-Syrian groups for the resignation of President Emile Lahoud, a staunch pro-Syrian and the last major holdover of the Syrian era.

There have been demands from the anti-Syrian faction in Lebanon that the U.N. probe of Hariri's assassination be broadened to include the death of Tueni and others.

As news of Tueni's death spread, supporters shouted insults at Syria and men and women wept in the street and outside the offices of the An-Nahar newspaper.

Tueni had played a major role in the wave of protests after Hariri's killing that lead Syria to finally withdraw in April under international pressure.

Ghassan Tueni, Gibran's father, saluted the crowds outside the An-Nahar newspaper offices as he was accompanied with his brother-in-law the telecommunication minister Marwan Hamadeh.

The report by chief U.N. investigator Detlev Mehlis, who had already implicated Syria in the killing, said new evidence had only reinforced investigators' belief that Syrian and Lebanese intelligence likely knew about the Hariri killing before it happened.

The report was welcomed by the former member of parliament Ghattas Khouri.

''I think Mr. Mehlis has enough evidence to do what he thinks is right and we support Mehlis report and the investigations,' Khouri said.

The new report accused Syria of trying to obstruct the probe by demanding that it revise earlier findings after a crucial witness recanted his testimony.

After Mehlis delivered his earlier report, the U.N. Security Council warned Syria that it would face further action, possibly including sanctions, if it didn't cooperate fully.

While Syria has denied involvement in both killings, the United States, France and Tueni's Lebanese allies said the murder would not distract them from pressuring Syria to cooperate with the United Nations investigation.

Hariri's parliamentary bloc also met in Beirut to discuss both the assassination of Gibran Tueni and Mehlis report.